Atitudes em relação ao idoso, a velhice pessoal e ao portador de deficiencia fisica em adultos portadores de deficiencia fisica

AUTOR(ES)

Marineia Crosara de Resende

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

Special conditions like physical disability and aging are important challenges to the adjustment of the self, its beliefs and attitudes. We carried out an investigation concerning attitudes of 242 physically disabled adults aged 24 to 39. Procedures involved collective application of a sociodemografic questionnaire; self reports on the level of disability evaluated through the Barthel Index, and three Differential Semantic Scales containing 30 items set into the domains Cognition, Agency, Social Relations and Persona. DS scales assessed attitudes toward the aged – An old person is, own aging - When I am old I will be and physically disabled people – A physically disabled person is. Statistical analysis showed superiority of positive, and weak or moderate negative attitudes toward all the objects. Concerning the oldest, positive attitudes were mostly showed by females, by subjects with lower levels of schooling and those affected by congenital disabilities; negative attitudes were showed by subjects with the highest levels of dependency. Negative attitudes were predominant in the domains of agency, cognition and social relations. Concerning physical disabled people, more positive attitudes were presented by woman, by divorced and those that have been physically disabled by more than 30 years. It was found positive association between physical dependency and negative attitudes toward physically disabled people. Attitudes toward own aging were more positive than those toward the oldest. To more positive attitudes toward the physically disabled corresponded more positive attitudes toward the aged. Data are suggestive of the effect of socially shared knowledge about the nature and sequence of developmental changes. May be attitudes and self beliefs toward aging, the aged and the disabled person act like self protective and adaptive processes mediated by social comparison to our subjects.

ASSUNTO(S)

idosos deficientes fisicos gerontologia

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